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PLATE CCCCXLH. 
APIS LAGOPODA, ‘var. 
“THICK LEGGED BEE. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Mouth horny, jaw and lip membranaceous at the tip: tongue ine 
flected: feelers four, unequal and filiform: antenne fhort and fili- 
form in the males, in the females fubclavated: wings flat : fting of 
the females and neuters pungent, and concealed in the abdomen. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Grey : anterior legs dilated and ciliated: pofterior fhanks clavate: 
vent emarginate. 
Apis LAGOPODA: grifea pedibus anticis dilato ciliatis, tibiis pofticis 
clavatis, ano emarginato. Linn. Syjt. Nat. 2. 927. 
27.—n. Suec. 1702.—var. 
Apis LAGoPoDA. Panz. Fn. Suec. 
The fingular dilation of the thanks of the anterior legs of this infe&t 
form a very firiking charaéter of the natural family of bees, to which 
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